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The Neoliberal Coup D'Etat

.The recently leakedregulatory coherence text from the TPPA negotiating round gives foreign corporations and powerful lobby groups the right to exert undue influence over New Zealand’s policy and regulatory decisions. Rights that New Zealand citizens would not have. . “What is at stake’, NZ Not for Sale Campaign Patron, Bryan Gould, says “is our ability as a self-governing democracy to decide our own laws” .If it’s any consolation we are not alone. .

Susan George, writing for the Transnational Institute notes that “Soon the neoliberal model will become irreversible...” .“By a close vote on 28 September 2011, the European Parliament passed the Commission’s plan—a far-reaching takeover of individual countries’ capacity to set their own budgets and to manage their own sovereign debts. .We’d recommend that you check this article out